Ocado: Experiment in virtual shopping at Cabot Circus, November 4th-10th

Head down to Cabot Circus between November 4th and 10th to enjoy an innovative shopping experience from online grocery retailer Ocado.

Between these dates, you’ll be able to use your mobile phone to purchase essential grocery items – and a few treats! – from Ocado’s integrated window display.

The Ocado virtual store at Unit 16 of Cabot Circus, between Ernest Jones and Wallis on Concorde Street, will be accessible 24 hours a day with customers able to shop in a few easy steps:

If you don’t have it already, download the Ocado On The Go app from the App Store or Android Market

Open the app and press the barcode symbol in the top right of your screen

Hold the camera screen over the barcode of a product until it recognises it

When the product appears on your screen, press ‘add’ to put it in your basket

Keep on shopping and then check out!

A range of products are available – from tea bags and toilet rolls to pasta and potatoes – and including branded goods and Waitrose products as well as Daylesford Organics and Reflets de France, newly stocked by Ocado.
The online supermarket first hit the high street this August at the One New Change shopping centre in central London. It was the first time that Ocado, a strictly online business, had migrated from the internet to bricks and mortar. However, being a leader in online grocery retail – introducing the world’s first supermarket shopping mobile application on iPhone in 2009 and now, this month, launching onto Blackberry and Windows Phone 7 handsets – the company stuck to its digital technology roots with a distinctive spin on the future of high street shopping.

Jason Gissing, Ocado co-founder, said: “Taking the virtual window shopping experience to Bristol is a natural move for Ocado, following a successful trial of this bold venture in London.

“Bristol is the perfect choice because, as of March, we started making our first deliveries here, and to people in the surrounding areas. The response since we arrived has been great. We hope that our loyal customers, and a few new faces, are just as excited to browse our innovative shop front, as we were to create it.”